Event Description

This is a course about the everyday behaviors of school leaders who build strong adult professional cultures (APC). It is a course for principals, assistant principals, team leaders, and instructional coaches, and very much for central office personnel who interact with school leaders.

Objectives:

• Explain the principal elements of strong adult professional culture (APC) and why they are essential for elevating student achievement and closing the achievement gap

• Use a repertiore of skills to build relationship trust

• Effectively implement procedures and structures for growing the 12 norms of strong APC

Who: should attend: Administrators, Instructional Coaches, Teacher Leaders.
When: June 23rd & 24th & October 3rd, 2025
Time: 8:30am - 3:30PM
Where: Jackson County Health & Human Services/Orchard Room #1009

Day 1:
You will be able to…

• Describe the elements of a strong Adult Professional Culture (APC)

• Be persuasive about why it is important

• Explain how leaders grow those elements

• Decide what new action you will take

 
Day 2:
You will be able to…

• Describe the elements of a strong Adult Professional Culture (APC).

• Use the 10 Big Rocks of High Expertise Teaching to prioritize instructional areas that need to be addressed in order to strengthen the APC.

• Describe 5-point advocacy and identify ways to apply it to strengthen the norms of APC. 

• Decide what new action you will take.

 
Day 3:
You will be able to…

• Use 12 guidelines for legitimate decision-making to plan, monitor, and evaluate decision-making processes

• Create collaborative decision-making structures that work

• Have and use resources to strengthen the skills of others working in collaborative decision-making teams

• Explain the role of collaborative decision-making in the larger picture of school improvement and strengthening school culture

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